A Dog's Purpose
Directed by:
Lasse HallströmCinematography:
Terry StaceyComposer:
Rachel PortmanCast:
Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, Josh Gad, Peggy Lipton, Juliet Rylance, John Ortiz, Luke Kirby, Gabrielle Rose, Caroline Cave, Nicole LaPlaca, Michael Patric (more)VOD (3)
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Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose, from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The 100-Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love. The family film told from the dog's perspective also stars Dennis Quaid, Britt Robertson, K.J. Apa, John Ortiz, Juliet Rylance, Luke Kirby, Peggy Lipton and Pooch Hall. (Universal Pictures US)
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Lasse Hallström knows how to milk audience’s emotions. He can even get emotions from a story whose premise goes against the beliefs of all of the Christian society. He doesn’t send the dog’s soul to the dog heaven but he sends it back on Earth to reincarnate into another dog and he makes him, according to the film’s purpose, look for his one true master. If only he didn’t remember all of his previous lives, but he does. No need to tell that the story is very chaotic but on the other hand, as I have already mentioned, the director did a great job and shows us that he can make a film with a dog in a main role that can make even penguins cry. So in the end this is a very rare and very emotional animal story and you will absolutely love it.
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A Dog's Purpose is a truly lovely and moving film, with the concentration of dust in the room raising every twenty minutes, activating your tear ducts. Several dog lives, several human owners, and one canine soul searching for its calling in the human world. It was essentially an emotional blackmail, but delivered in such a sympathetic way that I succumbed to it. A film that is tailor-made for dog lovers.
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A movie that quite deliberately and repeatedly tries to break your heart with every flash sad beady eyes and every pant of wet snout. The story of a wandering dog soul recounts the stories of the people he meets along the way, but in the end he sticks to the first story, which had the most potential. They made a sickly-sweet tearjerker that will have dog lovers crying their hearts out. Granted, this is a high quality tearjerker, and such are sometimes needed, but... IN A NUTSHELL: ... sorry, I prefer cats!
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